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Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story?

Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story?

Renton, James

Paperback

JudaismGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1137412992
ISBN13: 9781137412997
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 1 2017
Pages: 311
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This is the first book to examine the relationship between European antisemitism and Islamophobia from the Crusades until the twenty-first century in the principal flashpoints of the two racisms. With case studies ranging from the Balkans to the UK, the contributors take the debate away from politicised polemics about whether or not Muslims are the new Jews. Much previous scholarship and public discussion has focused on comparing European ideas about Jews and Judaism in the past with contemporary attitudes towards Muslims and Islam. This volume rejects this approach. Instead, it interrogates how the dynamic relationship between antisemitism and Islamophobia has evolved over time and space. The result is the uncovering of a previously unknown story in which European ideas about Jews and Muslims were indeed connected, but were also ripped apart. Religion, empire, nation-building, and war, all played their part in the complex evolution of this relationship. As well asa study of prejudice, this book also opens up a new area of inquiry: how Muslims, Jews, and others have responded to these historically connected racisms.

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